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The lyceum and public culture in the nineteenth-century United States

Angela G. Ray
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page viii)
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • Chapter
    • 1. From Mutual Education to Celebrity Entertainment (page 13)
    • 2. Modeling an Ideal in Josiah Holbrook's Family Lyceum, 1832-1833 (page 49)
    • 3. Judging Popular Lectures in Milwaukee, 1854-1857 (page 77)
    • 4. Frederick Douglass as Lyceum Lecturer, 1850s-1870s (page 113)
    • 5. Anna Dickinson's "Whited Sepulchres," 1869-1870 (page 143)
    • 6. "A Living Shuttle" (page 173)
  • Appendix
    • 1. Lyceum Timeline (page 191)
    • 2. Josiah Holbrook's Plan for Mutual-Education Societies, 1826 (page 193)
    • 3. The New York Tribune's List of Lyceum Lecturers, 1859-1860 (page 197)
    • 4. Lectures Sponsored by the Young Men's Association of the City of Milwaukee, December 1854-March 1857 (page 203)
    • 5. "The Races," by Frederick Douglass (page 207)
    • 6. "Whited Sepulchres," by Anna Dickinson (page 221)
    • 7. "Mormonism," by Anna Dickinson (page 239)
    • 8. Selections from Anna Dickinson's Letters Home, Summer 1869 (page 251)
  • Notes (page 257)
  • Bibliography (page 327)
  • Index (page 351)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAH 93.1 (Jun. 2006): 208-209 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4486111
RPA 10.4 (Winter 2007): 752-754 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41940337
JER 27.4 (Winter 2007): 791-795 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30043561
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Published: 2005
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780870137440 (paper)
  • 9780870137457 (hardcover)
Subject
  • American: 1789-1899
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